The Art of V-Ray: Mastering the V-Ray Renderer in Autodesk Maya

In this series, Rusty Hazelden gives you a practical guide to mastering the V-Ray renderer in Autodesk Maya. He dissects a series of shots from a commercial and explains the process used to create colorful splashes of paint using V-Ray for Maya.

Essential topics that are covered in this series include:

• V-Ray Frame Buffer / VFB
• V-Ray History Window
• Test Resolutions
• Viewport Render
• IPR Render
• IPR Debug Shading Modes
• Isolate Selected
• Ambient Occlusion
• V-Ray Material
• Diffuse Color
• Specular Highlights
• VRayLightRect / Area Light
• V-Ray Light Lister
• Key, Fill, and Rim Lighting
• Render Settings
• Production Engine
• GPU vs. CPU Rendering
• Bucket Rendering
• Progressive Rendering
• Image Sampler
• Global Illumination
• Brute Force Light Cache
• Batch Rendering
• Multichannel EXR files
• Render Elements / AOVs
• Sample Rate Render Element
• Denoiser Render Element
• V-Ray Denoiser
• Filename Tokens
• VRayProxy / VRayMesh Node
• Rendering Alembic Cache Files
• Extra V-Ray Attributes
• V-Ray Physical Camera
• Motion Blur / Shutter Angle

The Art of V-Ray Vol. 1 – Chapter 1

The Art of V-Ray Vol. 1 – Chapter 2

The Art of V-Ray Vol. 1 – Chapter 3

The Art of V-Ray Vol. 1 – Chapter 4

Related links

• The Change Log: Autodesk Maya, Blackmagic, V-Ray Updates Read about the Autodesk Maya and Maya LT 2019.1
• Maya Monday: V-Ray Next for Maya Tutorials – From May 2019: V-Ray Next for Maya came out several months ago and is speed, quality, power, creative control and smart integrations to your workflow. V-Ray Next is smarter, faster, and more powerful than ever with it’s powerful V-Ray Scene Intelligence, fully redesigned IPR, and 2X faster GPU production rendering. Here are a few tutorials to get you started.

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In Depth: Why Should I Use V-Ray?

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V-Ray is integrated into just about every piece of popular 3D creative software, including Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, Nuke, MODO, Unreal, and more. Comparatively, no other renderer on the market has as much host support!

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